diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittests.yaml b/.github/workflows/unittests.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c0ddb9c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittests.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+name: Run Fence unit tests
+on: push
+jobs:
+  run_tests:
+    uses: uc-cdis/.github/.github/workflows/python_unit_test.yaml@8445812b85abd7246fc88c2db3726c292595708f
diff --git a/.secrets.baseline b/.secrets.baseline
index 2423d6566..4f1ca14ad 100644
--- a/.secrets.baseline
+++ b/.secrets.baseline
@@ -368,5 +368,5 @@
       }
     ]
   },
-  "generated_at": "2023-05-15T16:30:09Z"
+  "generated_at": "2023-05-18T19:06:37Z"
 }
diff --git a/tests/ci_commands_script.sh b/tests/ci_commands_script.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c53e1fe40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ci_commands_script.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+poetry run pytest -vv --cov=fence --cov=migrations/versions --cov-report xml tests
diff --git a/tests/ci_setup.sh b/tests/ci_setup.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5adf5c247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ci_setup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+psql -c 'SELECT version();' -U postgres
+psql -U postgres -c "create database fence_test_tmp"
+
+sudo rm -f /etc/boto.cfg
+mkdir -p tests/resources/keys; cd tests/resources/keys; openssl genrsa -out test_private_key.pem 2048; openssl rsa -in test_private_key.pem -pubout -out test_public_key.pem
+openssl genrsa -out test_private_key_2.pem 2048; openssl rsa -in test_private_key_2.pem -pubout -out test_public_key_2.pem